To have written the correct spelling

[Verbena37]

Where DD's teacher had written her spelling error as category???
DD (13) had written catagory and the teacher had put catergory x 3 in green pen and made DD write it out incorrectly.

I've written sp category in purple felt pen.
I don't think that's unreasonable

If you don't know the name of the person to whom you are writing, then it should be yours faithfully.

hmm, we were taught Dear sir = yours faithfully and dear Mr Jones = yours sincerely. I guess I would have put dear parent in the second category (I nearly wrote catergory then!).

(please ignore missing capitals)

I think you were right to correct it- it's one thing if it's just something written incorrectly, but if it's a case of her drumming it into your child incorrectly then absolutely something should be said.

I too would have probably put it in the your's sincerely column but I guess officially, Dear Parent isn't writing someone's name. Other than that, I too didn't see the problem.

"I too would have probably put it in the your's sincerely column"

Your's?

iPad did that automatically without me knowing.

To be fair I took a pen and corrected all the notices at Nursery, so I'm certain YANBU.

Went to a parents evening tonight (to see how they're settling in) and he met me at the door! Shook his hand whilst muttering in my head category, category, category. DD was petrified I was going to say something ....but I didn't.

I sympathise hugely OP. I'd be so tempted to do the same.

The other day I had a meeting which happened to be in my child's classroom (year 2). There was a flipchart which said at the very top "If you're house was on fire, what would you save?" I couldn't have sat there for an hour knowing it was there so I took a pencil and crossed out the errant apostrophe and 'e'. It was pretty subtle. You wouldn't have noticed unless you were very close to the flipchart (i.e. if you were the teacher).

Yes, I could have left it (no I couldn't) or I could have had a quiet word with the teacher, but as it was late on Friday, I couldn't have mentioned it until Monday, which would have made it seem like I'd been obsessing about it for the whole weekend (which might well have been true) so at the time it seemed the best thing to do.

I really do try to control my inner pedant but, when it comes to mistakes like that in a teaching environment, I get really frustrated.

Oh well that seems to have gone well.

Not so in my family, teacher corrected dsis's 'grey' to 'gray'. My parents wrote back explaining that that spelling was the American version.
When the teacher still disagreed, they sent her into school with a dictionary.

She was mortified. And yes, mum was a teacher! And dad worked in a school!

Alicadabra that's soooo funny! I couldn't have sat at home all weekend either ....in fact I think I would have broken into school to change it!

Oh god, you've just reminded me of the time I corrected my then MD on his continual use of effect whether he meant effect or affect. I even told him using the incorrect terminology made us look unprofessional. He got a little tetchy, saying he just wanted my opinion as to whether what he'd written was factually correct or not. FYI, it mostly was, just a couple of minor errors which I was happy to point out. I'd only been there a couple of weeks.

When I was in primary school I asked my teacher how to spell yacht and she wrote it in my spellings book as match. My dad was furious and still talks about it 30-odd years later!

I agree that it is annoying for a teacher to make a spelling mistake, especially when they are correcting a child's work. Be reasonable though - anyone can make a mistake occasionally! Why couldn't you have put a pleasant note in the book instead of wring it in purple pen??

Honestly, people can be so intolerant and up themselves sometimes....

I haven't rtft (very sorry-super tired and hunted is on soon). I have got a y1 DD whose teacher cannot differentiate between there, their and they're. I am in for reading tomorrow, I am afraid of being a shit.

Actually, that really is awful watermark!!!

My husband also used to work in a school. When he left for another job, he had some lovely cards and poems made for him by the teachers and children, some of which said, "Your going to be missed," in large letters!
Shocking! In a primary school! No wonder the literacy levels of the nation's children are going down the tubes!

For a couple of terms in Year 5 we had a charming teacher who couldn't spell for toffee. My favourite was the worksheet which came home, showing the outlines of the countries of the EU. At the bottom was a list of their names. The homework was to write the correct name on the line drawn in the middle of each country on the map. Including The Cheque Republic.

As it was a small and informal school and I did regular school runs, I was able to draw these errors to his attention in private.

Just realised my latest post made no sense due to bloody autocorrect. The teacher spelt yacht yatch not match. And it was handwritten so no chance of it being a typo.

Surely if your iPad keeps autocorrecting to spellings that don't exist, someone who can't spell has been teaching it the wrong ones?

In my case it autocorrected yatch (not a word but the correct example for my story) to match, an actual word with a one letter difference so logical for a machine to guess that.

It just proves that even autocorrect doesn't recognise yatch as the closest spelling to yacht!

Not you, herethereandeverywhere, though I realise that was a very awkward coincidence. I am well aware that the word 'match' exists!